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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 105, 5 May 1915, Page 6

The New Zealand Government has received information that the German auxiliary schooner Elfrieflc will shortly be brought before a Prize Court in Fiji. At its next meeting the Council of the Chamber of Commerce will consider a proposal that in future all business bo conducted in committee. ' It is understood that Mr. R. Stewart, business manager in New Zealand of the travelling companies of Messrs. J. C. Williamson, Ltd., is a/bout to be transferred to look after the company's interests in South Africa. Mr Harold Ashton will return from South Africa to take Mr. Stewart's place in New Zealand The New Zealand Herald reports that a young man named Clarice Wells, twenty-one years of age, was fatally shot at Mititai. He had been out shooting, and in getting into a punt laid his gun down with the barrel towards him. The gun went off and the fall charge entered his side. He died a quarter of an hour later. Mr. J. D. Dinneen, 8.A., formerly a member of the teaching staff of King's College, who left Wellington on 10th February to volunteer for service in the military wing of the Royal Flying Corps, has received a commission and a probationary pilot's certificate. In a cable received by his mother, Lieutenant Dinneen stated that he had to continue training for three months before being appointed for active service. In Brooklyn, according to the report of the headmaster of the school (Mr. J. D. Hopkirk), teachers find a very great difficulty in inducing the children to attend sports practices and put forth an effort to excel in- the games. The ■children plead home duties as an excuse. Mr. Hopkirk emphasises the importance of sports, especially to boys who have to go out and battle with the world, and he urges parents to support tho efforts of the teachers in encouraging ttto games. "This," said Mr. Carey m the Arbitration Court to-day,. "is the 'classy* boardinghouse of Wellington (referring to a certain private board in ghouee). Cabinet Ministers stay there, Judges of the Supreme Court stay there." "You need not tell me about the place, ' said his Honour Mr. Justice Stringer, " I happen to be staying there myself at present.' 1 " Well, your Honour is "staying at a place which is not governed by an award," said Mr. Carey. "All I know is that it is very well governed." replied his Honour with a smile. An inquest is being held at Petono this afternoou before Mr. D. Q. A. Cooper, S M., into the cii^cumstances attending the death of William Bolton. who resided at No. 26, > Ryan-street. Bolton and a companion named Ward were- fishing from a boat on the Petone beach, when the former went to shift a rope attached to the trawling net. Short* ly afterwards his companion discovered him lying face downwards on the beach. Dr. Harding was summoned but could only pronounce life extinct, though ho could not certify as to the causa of death. The deceased was about forty years of age and unmarried. A statement as to the significance of the term "seriously wounded" was made tat Auckland last evening by Dr. Makgill, District Health Officer (cays a Press Association message). " I think ifc would be a comfort to Borne of those people whp have friends at the front," he said, " if it is explained that seriously wounded does not necessarily mean a dangerous wound." Dr. Makgill illus trated hjs point by referring to his own experience in tho South African war. He stated that on one occasion a man wSfe hit by a bullet which passed clean through the fleshy part of his shoulder. A doctor classed it as "slightly wounded," and got into trouble for not setting it down as "seriously wounded." The mere fact that the bullet penetrated the man's body necessitated classification as " seriously wounded," and no consideration was given to the question as to whether the bullet haa inflicted serious injury. Those homely ■ pi-overbs, "The nearer to church the farther from God " and "The shoemaker's wife is always the worst shod *' apply with peculiar aptness to New ZeaJand journalists, who have no publication devoted to their profession. Various branches of the Public Service and many private organisations issnp a magazine at regular intervals for their benefit, but the journalists whose occupation is wholly with publication lack publicity for themselves. About four years ago a magazine, " The Journalist", — the first of its kind in Australasia/ — began life sturdily and gave promise of a- vigorous coiitinuance, but the enterprise was interrupted by the laok of a> guarantee fund. Members of the Institute erf Journalists believe tliat tho time lias come for a strong effort to revive " The Journalist " and to inaurc its life against financial troubles. It is hoped to arrange a satisfactory basis of cooperation in this matter with branches of the Journalists' Association. Referring to junior scholarship examinations, the headmaster of Brooklyn School (Mr. J. D. Hopkirk) stated in his annual report : "You will note that in future the competition will be among the children of the Dominion, not among those of any one Education Board. Under the circumstances, I feel sure that unless the teachers of the Dominion can come to some understanding the condij tions will result in undue rivalry between the educational districts, so that in some districts coaching in school and after scTiool will go on ( to the detriment of the less brilliant child. The teacher, for thß sake of tTie reputation of his district and school., will feel obliged to neglect the slower children that the more brilliant may be successful in gaining scholarships. For years there has been an agreement among many of tho teachers of the Wellington district that there should be no after-school coaching, thus allowing the scholarships to bo gained by the deserving children. Again, under the new regulations. 1 understand that the smaller schools will have to compete agaiu6t the larger Bchools — manifestly an unfair competition when the relative advantages in staff and equipment aro considered. It seems to me that the time has come when the scholarship examination should bo abolished and the money thus expended be spent in assisting country children to take their secondary courscE. Already the proficiency certificate gives a free place, and that should be sufficient for the child whose homo lies near the secondary school. " The Rev. E. 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